Use of AI (Artificial Intelligence) techniques to model smart thermostats data of big buildings

This project tackles the issue of knowledge incompleteness and lack of domain coverage in resume and job posting matching caused by the exploitation of domain-general resources. A variety of co-operative semantic/ontological resources will be used to filter out irrelevant resumes. A two-way (candidate to job and job to candidate) semantic-based automatic suitability ranking is proposed. […]

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Multidimensional Energy Consumption Analysis in Large Organizations: An Information Visualization Design Study

The goal of this project is to improve the process by which professional energy managers and utility company personnel analyze large amounts of data related to energy consumption. This process is often exploratory, meaning that many analysis questions are open-ended and cannot be phrased as a directed query. Open-ended exploration can be supported by information […]

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Simulation and Visualization of Flood and Drought events in Urban Areas

2020 and 2021 have seen an unprecedented number of natural disasters. According to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration of the U.S. Department of Commerce, 2020 was the 5th warmest year ever recorded with a record number of tropical storms and wildfires throughout North America. Considering only 2020, the cost of these weather and climate […]

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Natural language processing for Market Intelligence

LeadSift is a marketing intelligence platform that generates qualified leads by using signals from the public web to identify which companies are in the market for specific products or services. The company does so by sifting through unstructured public data so companies can easily identify, understand and engage in-market audiences with creatively relevant, personalized outreach. […]

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Design and Develop an AI-powered Financial Management Application in place of a Legacy Financial Planning Tool

Legacy Financial Canada Inc., the partner organization of this project, is a Toronto based financial planning and services firm incorporated in 2014. The company offers holistic comprehensive financial plans, services, and advice to reach the financial goals of their clients. Its uniquely customized solutions and services, taking a more distinct shape around the diverse needs […]

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Snehal Sagun Grant Application

At Hammond Power Solutions Inc. we are currently running Sharepoint 2013 on premise. Support for this version will expire shortly so we need to move the content to the cloud to ensure business continuity. The main product we use to develop our forms in Sharepoint 2013 is Infopath which is also no longer supported. The […]

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Développement, intégration et déploiement d’un écosystème de monitoring et d’aide aux soins de santé par fauteuils motorisés instrumentés pour des personnes en situation de handicap

Les soins et services aux personnes atteintes de handicap limitant leur mobilité revêt une importance toute particulière dans notre société. Le but de ce projet est de développer un écosystème permettant un suivi de l’état de santé au quotidien de ces personnes. Pour y arriver, un fauteuil mécanisé équipé d’actuateurs et de moteurs permettant la […]

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An Activity Theory-Based Project Management Tool For Agile

This project will apply the theoretical framework of Activity Theory to Agile product development methods in order to decompose them into salient components, using an integrative literature review of Agile methodologies to do so. This decomposition will then be used to adapt the open-source education management/planning software CourseFlow for use in Agile development. This software […]

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cyberSKA II: Scientific test and verification of multi-node distributed infrastructure for data-intensive radio astronomy

The work to be undertaken by the intern with Rackforce builds on a successful NSERC engage grant to develop a distributed cyberinfrastructure system linking the University of Calgary with the Rackforce data centre in Kelowna. This system will demonstrate reliable leading-edge infrastructure for distributed multi-user collaboration for advanced scientific data processing. The planned work consists […]

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